Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Die Dame vom See by Erik Simon, Andrzej Sapkowski

15 reviews

shiveryteacup's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol

lonelylooper's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Drug use, Cannibalism, and Colonisation

mcmeiss's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit and Pandemic/Epidemic

opinkb's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and War

Moderate: Cursing, Torture, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Slavery, Vomit, Colonisation, and Deportation

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Drug use, Incest, Sexism, Xenophobia, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

camoo3032's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Vomit, Abortion, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Homophobia, Infertility, Slavery, Excrement, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Colonisation

geordirr's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Incest and Antisemitism

if you haven’t figured it out by now the entire plot of the series revolves around the attempted forced impregnation of a teenage girl by multiple parties. It’s particularly bad in this book as we get to read graphic descriptions of people attempting violent physical rape, coercive rape and medical rape on Ciri. Oh and one of the last things yennifer does before dying is to call Triss a slut for sleeping with Geralt back in book 3

saltylane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Like all the other books in the Witcher series, this one jumps back and forth between perspectives, and gives a lot of information that isn’t completely necessary or interesting. The writing style is descriptive but not necessarily excessively so. The story itself has a lot of twists and turns and mysteries. I’d say the ending was rather bittersweet. Also, there were a lot of things that didn’t really make too much sense for the characters that have developed over the past handful of books. There were also just a handful of times whenever an action was starting to peak, and then it just dropped down because there was some kind of intervention that just happened to happen at that moment.

I didn’t necessarily expect a happy ending for everyone… But at least an ending that actually had conclusions that really mattered or that made sense would’ve been nice. 

Overall, I rather enjoyed the series, despite its many flaws. With the switching perspectives, it did get confusing as to what was going on and what character was doing what. It often went to characters that I wasn’t really sure why they were even included… Unless they were just trying to close up plot lines? I don’t know; they didn’t really matter. It didn’t really seem very important that So-and-So died in such a way or succeeded in XYZ. Sure, sometimes it was nice to see what older characters that we hadn’t seen in a while were doing… But overall it wasn’t really important to the plot what was going on in their lives. 

The reader for this audiobook is very talented! He really knows how to manipulate his voice to the different characters and stick with it consistently. The voice acting  was also very good with emphasized emotions relevant to the scenes.

I’m really interested in seeing how the series on Netflix adapts all of the storylines. Hopefully it’s a little bit less convoluted…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Xenophobia, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexism, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Classism

proudtobeabookaholic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Häxkarlsflickan Ciri har vandrat genom en portal till en annan värld och en annan tid. Även här finns det de som vill bestämma över hennes liv, något hon aldrig tycks kunna komma ifrån. Under tiden letar både vänner och fiender efter henne, framför allt häxkarlen Geralt. Men kriget mot Nilfgaard är oundvikligt och alla kommer inte att överleva. 

Jag blir lite förvirrad av hoppen mellan de olika historierna och de olika berättarna, det är lite svårt att få tag på den röda tråden. Ibland kommer jag heller inte ihåg vilka karaktärerna är - de är ju så otroligt många! Samtidigt är det här en bok jag kan läsa i lite då och då eftersom jag är bekant med världen och huvudkaraktärerna. Bitvis är boken spännande och intressant, men jag börjar nog bli klar med Witcher-världen. Blev lite förvånad när den här boken började kännas mer och mer som en avslutande del, med tanke på att det finns ytterligare en bok i serien, men det verkar som om den sista delen utspelar sig före huvudserien. Med andra ord så är "Damen i sjön" avslutande och jag behöver egentligen inte läsa "Ovädrets tid". Den verkar likna samlingarna med kortare berättelser som introducerade mig för den här världen och som jag, så här i efterhand, tror jag tyckt bäst om, så jag kommer att läsa den så småningom. Men det kanske dröjer ett tag...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

tilo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Der letzte Teil der Hauptreihe ist wie alle anderen Bücher in der Reihe genial. Der Anfang ist sehr kurios und ich war etwas skeptisch, aber der Subplot

mit Nimue und Condwiramurs

hat dann alles in ein spannendes Licht gerückt. Einige der Höhepunkte des Romans haben mich jedoch nicht so stark bewegt wie die Vorgänger, was einerseits daran lag, dass ich durch die Videospiele einer der größten Plottwists schon kannte und andererseits fand ich einige Momente sehr abgestumpft geschrieben und die Reaktionen der Charaktere haben mich teilweise verwundert. Das ist aber auf hohem Niveau angemerkt.
Das Ende ist sehr sonderbar. Man mag darüber denken, was man möchte, aber speziell zu diesem Teil hat es schon gepasst.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Incest, Slavery, Torture, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, and Classism

Minor: Ableism and Colonisation